List of terms used to describe the intelligence of an agent

Eliezer has lots of terms to describe how intelligent/powerful/whatever an agent is. These were mostly introduced publicly in his Arbital writings, and most of them have not caught on or been explained very well.

• Relevant
• Pivotal (is this only for actions, or also for agents, as in "agent who can perform a pivotal action"?)
• sufficiently optimized
• highly optimized
• cognitively powerful
• powerful (is this a shorthand for cognitively powerful?)
• relevant powerful [1] = "cognitively powerful enough to be relevant to existential outcomes"
• sufficiently advanced
• advanced

See also

• Comparison of terms related to agency
• Coherence and goal-directed agency discussion